What do you use for your database naming convention? Anything in particular to identify the quota such that the helpdesk correctly provisions accounts? However... DBs should not be geared towards a ...

For this blog post, I’m going to jump right into a topic of most interest to organizations deploying Exchange Server 2010, which is Disaster Recovery of databases. New to Exchange 2010 is the concept ...

I've been doing some reading trying to decide if we need to create another Exchange Database, and came across the following: 1. What is the ENFORCED Maximum Database Size (as in errors will occur if ...

An Exchange Server holds data in databases (EDB files). The EDB files, which are proprietary of Microsoft, are accompanied by transaction logs. Although the server and its configuration are important, ...

Protecting Microsoft Exchange 2003 with backup tools, part II Last week, I gave you an overview of Microsoft Exchange components--how the Exchange database is designed, the file types it contains, and ...

There could be many reasons why you need to restore a database. Let’s look at some common reasons. The server has been re-installed, after failure. The database gets corrupted or is not mounting.

Microsoft Exchange Server is a critical component of enterprise communication, but like any complex system, it is not immune to failures. Database corruption, unexpected shutdowns, hardware failures, ...